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Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Come on guys, I believe AU when they say they never offered Smart the job. I truly believe that near the end of the interview, Coach Smart started laughing and said that Saban put him up to this; he then just walked out of the room, still laughing, before AU even had a chance to make an offer.

Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Here's a pretty telling article about why Coach Smart didn't get the job..He wanted full disclosure about the NCAA investigation & auburn wasn't willing give them..I would too if I was Coach Smart..Whatcha trying to hide auburn????..

Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Originally Posted by TideMan09

Here's a pretty telling article about why Coach Smart didn't get the job..He wanted full disclosure about the NCAA investigation & auburn wasn't willing give them..I would too if I was Coach Smart..Whatcha trying to hide auburn????..

His demands included full disclosure of the state of the NCAA’s current look-see at the Auburn program, full control of hiring and firing staffers and the opportunity to coordinate the Alabama defense in the BCS Championship Game against Notre Dame.Smart’s demands are perfectly understandable. So is Auburn’s unwillingness to grant them, which is part of the reason Auburn didn’t offer Smart the job and turned toward Malzahn.

"I didn't come to Alabama to win 10 games a year and be a contender. I came here to win championships. Conference championships and national championships. I love it here because that's just not what I want, but what this fanbase expects."
--Alabama Head Football Coach, Nick Saban

“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish on it’s ability to climb a tree, it will spend it’s whole life believing it is stupid.” — Albert Einstein

Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Taking the AU job is akin to walking in the barn full of walkers on "The Walking Dead." A bunch of mindless zombies doing whatever the heck they want to do. Glad to see Smart staying with Bama, at least for now.

Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Originally Posted by JessN

Smart was offered the Auburn job before Malzahn. He turned it down.

I notice a couple of writers are disputing this.

Smart was offered the job first. He turned it down. You can believe who you want but we have the facts and apparently, others have AU's official party line. I don't butt heads with other in-state journalists often -- only when I know who's right. And it's not them, this time.

Thank you as always Jess...some folks at work are denying this happened, no sense in engaging them, it's a waste of breath.

Re: Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Originally Posted by NoNC4Tubs

There is no doubt that Smart was offered the job.............it all comes down to semantics about what constitutes an "offer".

We did learn that nothing has changed on the Plains and it probably won't while Pat Dye is semi functioning or the NCAA has not forced a cleaning. The coach at Auburn is a system coach just like a system quarterback. Most top quarterbacks don't want to play in a system unless it's a proven success.

Malzahn was always the fall back guy, and the committee was a rouge. Bo Jackson probably wanted Charlie Strong, but not a chance with Dye is still there(fired 1st shot in the war), Petrino was vetoed from the top but was allowed an interview, and Coach Smart embarrassed them with his bluntness about change.

Side Note: Petrino he came out of the coaching hires with egg, he wanted the Auburn job yesterday although that may have not been his 1st choice.

I believe the request to coach the Bama defense in the BCSNCG was likely a poison pill request designed to elicit a Barn refusal and thus give at least one reason for his own refusal. As I said previously, I'm not sure he genuinely wanted the job to begin with -- it makes zero sense for an in-state conference rival to agree to such a condition in my opinion.

Just to make this clear about Kirby Smart and the Auburn job...

Originally Posted by TideMan09

Exactly..In other words you won't have control of the team..Just do what the "Good 'Ole Boys" tell ya to do..Business as usual in Lee County..

That's why in the long run (and short) they lose! I wouldn't walk blindly into something. He investigated the issue and it turned out that something was fishy. He didn't want to get dirty and I don't blame him.